“Before you start using your phone, it is advisable to enable the Find Phone mode on it,” the expert advises.
He noted that this mode allows you to physically determine the location of a stolen or lost smartphone and in some cases even try to find it.
“In addition, with the help of this mode, you can block the phone remotely, in fact, turning it into a brick, so that a thief or a person who found it and did not turn it over to either the police or the owner could not use it seriously,” Lukatsky explained.
According to the expert, the first thing after a phone is lost or stolen is to change passwords on all services used by its owner, primarily those related to Internet banking and e-mail.
“Of course, change the password on the service that backs up information.
For Apple it is iCloud and Apple services, for Google it is Google service.
This is necessary so that the attacker could not, by unlocking the phone, gain access to all the data stored in various external services, including social networks, ”concluded Lukatsky.
Previously, experts gave advice on how to combat phone fraud.